Crabapple, SnowdriftMalus 'Snowdrift'

Spectacular in full flower in the spring, the Snowdrift crabapple's pink buds turn into a profusion of snowy white blossoms in April or May. This is followed by the 3/8" -1/2" round, orange-red fruits that attract birds and persist on the tree throughout the winter. The Snowdrift crab has an upright, spreading, rounded, dense crown, and can be grown as a multi-stemmed or single trunk tree. The leaves are a glossy dark green turning a dull yellow in the fall. This tree prefers a sunny location with moist, acidic, well drained soil, but can tolerate mildly alkaline, occasionally wet or dry, and clay soils. Snowdrift crab is a beautiful, hardy tree with visual impact during all four seasons.

Zones 4 - 8

Hardiness Zones: Zones 4 - 8
The Snowdrift Crabapple can be expected to grow in the zones shown in color in the arborday.org zone map. (see map below)

Flowering Tree

Type of tree:
The Snowdrift Crabapple falls into the following type(s): Flowering Trees

Full Sun

Various Soils

Rounded Shape

Shape:This crabapple has rounded shape.

More Info

The Snowdrift Crabapple can be expected to grow in the zones shown on this map.

Attributes:The Snowdrift crab has an upright, spreading, rounded, dense crown, and can be grown as a multi-stemmed or single trunk tree. This tree prefers a sunny location with moist, acidic, well drained soil, but can tolerate mildly alkaline, occasionally wet or dry, and clay soils. It's a beautiful but hardy and vigorously growing tree with visual impact during all four seasons. Our Snowdrift Crabapple trees are budded onto seedlings.

Description:Spectacular in flower in the spring, the Snowdrift crabapple's pink buds turn into a profusion of snowy white blossoms in April or May. This is followed by the 3/8" -1/2" round, orange-red fruits that attract birds and persist on the tree throughout the winter. The Snowdrift crab has an upright, spreading, rounded, dense crown, and can be grown as a multi-stemmed or single trunk tree. The leaves are a glossy dark green turning a dull yellow in the fall. This tree prefers a sunny location with moist, acidic, well drained soil, but can tolerate mildly alkaline, occasionally wet or dry, and clay soils. Snowdrift crab is a beautiful, hardy tree with visual impact during all four seasons.

Wildlife Value:Fruits attract birds and persist on the tree through winter.

Leaves: Glossy dark green turning yellow in autumn.

Flower Color: Spectacular in full flower in the spring, the Snowdrift crabapple's pink buds turn into a profusion of snowy white blossoms in April or May.

Fruit Description: 3/8" -1/2" round, orange-red fruits

Crabapples are self-fertile, which means they depend on insects such as bees to transfer pollen between flowers on the same tree, though they do not require another tree of the same kind to produce crabapples.

Did you know that crabapples will also pollinate apple trees? However, because bees tend to stay within the same flower color when foraging apple blossoms, try and match the flower color of the crabapple to the apple variety.